The PPP scheme (to help "small businesses") is in direct conflict with state Unemployment Compensation, and federal dollars paying $600/week to "anyone" affected by the covid crisis.

Especially for the restaurant industry....where operating with 25% of customers, with 100% of over-head, and keeping all employees on the payroll for the next 6 months just doesn't make sense (unless it's a large corporation that can absorb those losses). There's an insane discrepancy by state, too -- my son in PA got UC right away, but my son in NC is still waiting, even tho they both applied around the same time.

Also, it's absurd that private schools (like St. Andrew's where Trump's son attends, and has an $8 million endowment) got money before the mom and pop joint did. It falls flat when Mnuchin says there will be audits after-the-fact. By then, thousands of truly SMALL businesses will have gone out of business, taking families down the tubes. That's the ugly truth of Trickle Down economics.

Meanwhile, we have dairy farmers destroying milk, poultry and hog farmers destroying livestock, food banks short of food, while millions of unemployed people are lining up in food lines, and can't pay their rent.

We have about 5% of the world's population, but 1/3 of all covid infections, and 1/4 of all deaths. Trump is wrong-- it's not because we're doing more testing than any other nation, we've barely tested 2% per capita. pfft

WTF is wrong with this picture? American Exceptionalism my ass.